Improvement in cigar-makers  paste-boxes



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----Gigar-Makers--P-a-ste- B ox. 7 N0. 167,376. Patented Aug. 31,1875.

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TE STATES ATENT FFIGEO MICHAEL WILHELMS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR- MAKERS PASTE-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,376, dated August 31, 1875; application filed July 22, 1875. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MICHAEL WILHELMS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in a Oigar-Makers Paste-Box, of which the following is a specification:

My invention has for its object to so construct a paste-box for cigar-makers use as that it will preserve the paste fresh for a longer period than an open cup, by excluding it from the atmosphere, except a small portion in a finger-cup, which is filled from time to time, as required, and also to prevent it from souring in hot weather by keeping it cool in con tact with a vessel below it containing cold water.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section.

In the drawing, A represents a sheet-metal vessel. closed at both ends, and provided with a screw-plug, a, in the bottom, by removing which it may be filled with cold water. B is the cup, closed at the top, open at the bottom, and sleeved on the vessel A, to which it is snugly fitted. At the top there is a small hopper-shaped finger-cup, b, with an opening in the bottom communicating with the inte- Vessel will keep the main portion cool.

What I claim as my invention is.-

The vessel A, fitted with the basepl ug a,

and the cup B, provided with the finger-cup b, constructed and combined in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

' MICHAEL WILHELMS. Witnesses:

WM. H. LOTZ, GEO. FROMMANN. 

